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"Jacobite Sympathies"
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Date: 1698
"But when Vice is varnish'd over with Pleasure, and comes in the Shape of Convenience, the case grows somewhat dangerous; for then the Fancy may be gain'd, and the Guards corrupted, and Reason suborn'd against it self."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"A well work'd Poem is a powerful piece of Imposture: It masters the Fancy, and hurries it no Body knows whither.--If therefore we would be govern'd by Reason let us stand off from the Temptation, such Pleasures can have no good Meaning."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)